Tutorials in mm

Tutorial 1

This tutorialshows
Creating part and blank shapes
Performing face milling, driling and reaming operations
Viewing tool path
Generating NC program
Generating documents

Part drawing

12* 10 dia. holes

at 30 deg. pitch on PCD 100 30

o
O
150

O O
O O

75
-200-

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 Start a new part

D If you have just started CAPSmill, Select Create a new

part in the startup dialog box and click on OK. If you
already started CAPSmill, select File > New.
have

Work setup
box appears automatically when
The Work setup dialog
you start a new part.

Setup data
Enter the following data, leaving the rest unaltered:
For Units select 'MM".
For Work piece material select any material.

Documentation
Click on the Documentation tab and enter suitable
data.
All the data except the Remarks will appear in the NC
program and in other documents like the cycle time
sheet. You can omit any or all of them. Any field that you
do not enter appears blank in the shop documents
generated by the program.
Click on OK to exit from the Work setup dialog box.

Save the File

Select File > Save.

Enter the File name as 'Plate'. The file will now be
saved as Plate.cpm. All job files that you create in
CAPSmill will be stored with the extension, dot cpm.

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 Click on the Geometry button at the bottom left of the
Geomeltry Machining Toolpath Screen.

Draw blank

Draw rectangle
Select Draw» Shapes- Rectangle(Center -
Length-Width).
Enter the following data:
Length 200
Breadth= 150
Corner radius = 0
Rotation angle = 0

Click on OK.
At the prompt Specify the center point of the
rectangle, enter the coordinates 0,0 through the
keyboard and press the Enter key or Done.

Draw part

Draw points for 10mm diameter holes

Points Circle.
.Select Draw > Point pattern on

Enter the following data and click on OK.

Diameter= 100
Angle of first hole = 0
Number of holes = 12

At the prompt Enter the center point for this pattern

enter 0, 0 through the keyboard and press Enter.

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 Zoom picture
the view.
Select View >Zoom all to expand

been defined; your drawing should

The part has now
appear as shown.

Define blank shape

Select Draw > Define blank.

the dialog box that
Click on Select contour button in
appears.
contour click on the 200x
Atthe prompt select a
150 rectangle drawn earlier.
box that
Enter the following data in the dialog
appears and click on OK.
Blank thickness 80.0
-75.0
Z coordinate at bottom=

Y coordinates are picked

The Minimum and Maximum X, Leave them
from the selected rectangle.
up automatically
unaltered.

optional. If it is not defined, it is

The blank definition is
automatically assumed as
a rectangular block
Surounding the area that is cut.

Steps in performing a machining operation:

Select the operation
Select the tool
Specify the area to be machined
Specify the machining parameters

You will ind this sequence of steps repeated for every

operation

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 Machining
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Get into the machining mode by clicking on the
Machining button at the bottom left of the screen.

Face milling
Select the operation
.Select Machining > Milling > Face mill.

Select the tool

.Click on Newtool.
In the Select tool type list, select a face mill type
with a square shoulder.
In the Select tool list, click on the 125.0mm. dia.
face mill.
Click on OK.

Specify the area to be machined

At the prompt Select a contour click on the rectangle,
which was defined as the blank earlier.
Select Rectangle-Center point, length and breadth
from the select entity list and click on done.

Specity the machining parameters

A machining parameters dialog box appears with
default values.

Enter 5for Material thickness.

Click on OK.
At the prompt Select a circle to specify the
machining start point click on the top right circle.

While defining the blank you specified the blank

thickness as 80.0 and Z coordinate at bottom as -75.0
The extra 5.0 material is removed in face milling, and the
top of the face milled surface of the part becomes Z0
after this.

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 Default values and cutting parameters are automatically
selected from the database for the selected tool type, tool
material and work piece material.

Drilling
Select Machining Hole Drilling.
Click on New tool. In the Tool type box expand the
'Drill' list and select Twist drill".
Select a 9.8mm dia. drill and click on OK.
A t the prompt Select the points to be machined click
on any point on the point pattern, click on Done.
Since the hole is part of a pattern, all the points in the
pattern get selected.
Select No for the prompt Do you want to omit any
holes?

For Work surface Z enter 0, and for Hole depth

enter 32.0.
Click on OK.

For quick search, type the first numeral of the tool size
you are searching.

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 Reaming
Select Machining Hole » Reaming
Click on New tool. In the Tool type box expand
the Reamer list and select 'Reamer
Click on a 10.0mm dia. reamer, HSS tool
material and Click on OK.
machined
At the prompt Select the points to be
the point pattern, click on
click on any point on

Done.
Select No for the prompt Do you want to omit
any holes?
For Work surface Z enter 0 and for Hole depth
enter 30.0 Click on OK.

Save the file.

Select a machine
Whatever you did so far (Work setup, Geometry
definition, Machining) is independent of any machine.
Further functions like the NC program, cycle time, etc.
require the machine be selected since they use the
machine's mechanical data like feed rate and spindle
speed limits, spindle power, etc.

Select Machine.
Click on a machine from the list.
Click on Select.

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 View tool path

bottom left of the

Click on the Toolpath button at the
sCreen.
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Click on to simulate till the end.
Select to start simulation.
other
After viewing the simulation try out the
simulation options

Modes: Solid or line mode

Views: Isometric, XY, YZ or XZ.
yz Simulate till: Next motion, next tool, next
operation or end of the program.

NC program

OK
Click on NC program on the menu bar. Click on

in the dialog box that appears.

Click on Edit to view the NC program.
Select File > Exit to exit from the editor.

Power graph
Select Documents > Power.

To see the exact spindle power for an operation, move

the cursor over its power bar.
f you think the spindle is being under or over utilized in
hil any operation, you can change the operation's cutting
parameters.
Double click on the power bar for the operation. Its
cutting parameters are displayed.
When you change the parameters and exit from the
dialog box, the new spindle power is displayed.

Click on Close to exit. If you have changed the cutting

parameters, you can now choose to either retain the new
values or discard them.

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 Time study sheet

Select Documents Time study sheet

Click on View. Click on l enlarge the view.
the left to move between
Click on the buttons on

pages the report to Excel or RTF

Click on Export to export
format.
Click on Print to print the report.
click on Close, then
To exit from the cycle time sheet
on OK.

Tools list

BL Select Documents »Tool list.

The options are as in the cycle time sheet.

Tool layout sheet

Select Documents Tool layout sheet.

Click on the arrow buttons in the menu bar

to switch between sheets.

Click on to print a sheet.

Click on to exit.

DNC to the machine

Select Utilities DNC to send the NC program to

the CNC machine.

Communication between the PC and the CNC is through

R$232C port on the CNC system.

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